Front-End JavaScript Engineer

You will join Canva as an individual contributor and be paired with a mentor. Your day to day activities will consist of solution design and hands-on software development - working closely with your leads, designers, and product managers to deliver features and functionality to our 10+ million customers all over the world.

Once you’ve settled in and have a comfortable grasp of the product, environment, and processes, you'll be given more responsibility and start leveraging your previous experience -- bringing new ideas to the table concerning everything from feature development, process improvement, and product suggestions

Responsibilities

• Taking charge of your career development by seizing opportunities to work across different teams, technologies, and roles
• Developing and iterating on technical proposals - outlining how solutions will be structured and developed
• Developing solutions, you've designed from the ground up through to deployment into production
• Identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks within the application and broader infrastructure
• Participating in design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews
• Performance debugging, benchmarking and building awesome things in general

Required Experience & Skills

• Two (2) or more years of commercial experience in developing complex web applications
• You’re happy to work exclusively in JavaScript (previous experience with other languages is great)
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals -- including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns. You’d be surprised how often these things come up here at Canva!